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The Washington Free Beacon posted a hilarious hitpiece on Vice President Kamala Harris this morning. It’s a three-reporter byline, featured prominently on their website, and heavily promoted by its editors.

Their big scoop: HARRIS LEFT HER JOB AT McDONALDS OFF HER RESUME. PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!!!

Yes, for real.

These dipshits are doing GOTCHAS by digging up Harris’s post-college and law school resumes and pointing out that she left off a few weeks working the deep fryer between her freshman and sophomore years at Howard University. This hard-hitting investigation is just asking questions about why the Vice President didn’t mention the McDonalds gig when she applied to be a summer law clerk at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in 1987. Instead, she included stints at Charles Schwab, the FTC, a senate internship, and clerking at a law firm.

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[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There's some old gigs that I leave off just because the reputations of some of the companies I worked for is poor, they're seriously trying to attack her over leaving McDonald's off? Is the Rebuplican strategy to just appeal to boomers by being as out of touch as possible?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Resumes should be concise, not pages long. If information is irrelevant, you should cut it. When applying for a job as a line cook, I'd include that, applying for a job as a lawyer, it makes no sense for them to care if I know I worked at Cheddars

*Just adding to what you were saying, not saying you were saying something different

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've worked in software for years, and even jobs that are relevant, if they were some time ago, I chop it wayyyy down. One or two very short sentences giving a sense of duties/accomplishments. Enough to fit on 2 pages. I used to shoot for just 1 page, but it becomes too dense to look at if I still try to fit a summary of recent work, brief outlines of prior stuff, and a section of keywords for the people who are too lazy to screen it themselves first - which is nearly everyone.

I've been on the hiring side and when the 5 or 6 pager gets passed around, I groan. I don't know how the hell these are making it past our screening. Six pages? WTAF. I'm not reading all that! I think the worst case was someone with 10 pages, I kid you not.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I cannot think of any boomers I know that would think they should leave McD's as a job, even. In fact, it was boomers (and a few of their parent's generation) that taught me to mercilessly pare my resume down, and then pare it down again. You are not writing your memoir and no hiring manager could GAF about what you did even five years ago (well, at least in professional white collar jobs that I know about). People don't want to wade through all that.

I think they are just aiming this at very stupid and weird people, regardless of age. Or maybe people that don't work or have only worked food service jobs, maybe.